## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} strcmp (@var{s1}, @var{s2})
## Compares two strings, returning 1 if they are the same, and 0 otherwise.
## 
## @strong{Note:}  For compatibility with @sc{Matlab}, Octave's strcmp
## function returns 1 if the strings are equal, and 0 otherwise.  This is
## just the opposite of the corresponding C library function.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function status = strcmp (s1, s2)

  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("strcmp (s, t)");
  endif

  status = 0;
  if (isstr (s1) && isstr(s2))
    c1 = columns (s1);
    c2 = columns (s2);
    if (c1 == c2)
      if (c1 == 0)
        status = 1;
      else
        status = all (all (s1 == s2));
      endif
    endif
  endif

endfunction